Swalmen, The Netherlands (ots/PRNewswire) - The world's most sustainable washroom was on show at the Facilities Exhibition in the Brabant Halls in Den Bosch, the Netherlands. Van Houtum, based in Swalmen, the Netherlands, used the event to present a completely equipped washroom, supplied with certified cradle-to-cradle hygienic paper, hand soap and hand foam. (Photo: ...
Tokyo (ots/PRNewswire) - HOYA Corporation today announced financial results for the third quarter ended December 31, 2010. Net sales were up 1.5% to 108,449 million yen year-on-year, and operating income rose 4.7% to 19,897 million yen. Net income was up 12.0% to 13,210 million yen, and earnings per share were 30.62 yen compared with 27.24 yen in the same period last year. During the quarter, due to the economic ...
Toronto (ots/PRNewswire) - On January 25, "Vez Inc." announced the "Key to Knowledge". On January 27, they announced the "Brain Switch". Both were described as "An Automated way of thinking, learning, understanding and using knowledge." The beta release date was to be February 15, 2011. In 1998, the Late Fred Wiebe copy wrote the "HYWY 101(C)" Knowledge Map ...
Brussels (ots) - Will it be better to invest in equities or bonds in 2011? Growth prospects in emerging countries are strong and the US economy is improving gradually, so, coupled with the renewed monetary stimulus, we have a positive outlook for financial assets, especially equities. This combination should favour shareholders over debt holders in 2011. We expect a gradual economic recovery in the G7, but Pandora's ...
Toronto, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - A Canadian Company, VEZ Inc., has developed a methodology for "People to turn on" the "Human Genius Switch" to allow people to instantly train themselves to think and act like a genius, using "Infinite-Simplified-Logic". The Company also has a multi-interface technology for ...
Calgary, Alberta (ots/PRNewswire) - Resverlogix announced today that its lead drug RVX-208, a first in class ApoA-I production drug, illustrated positive effects on an important cognitive function and Alzheimer's Disease (AD) marker, plasma Amyloid beta 40 (Abeta40). This analysis was performed based on increasing evidence in the literature that the transport ...
Toronto (ots/PRNewswire) - A Canadian Company, VEZ Inc., has developed a methodology to create a 3 dimensional Knowledge Map and Tool that enables a new type of "Knowledge Computing" by Humans and Machines compatible with existing digital technologies and devices. The invention is a way to, "Visualize Everything and Zoom In 3D", to access knowledge. (VEZ) By using the "Key to Knowledge" people will be able to do things better. The "Key to Knowledge" will be ...
International Society for Cellular Therapy
Vancouver (ots/PRNewswire) - In keeping with its commitment to connect industry, regulatory experts, therapeutic societies and translational centers to advance emerging cellular therapies, ISCT announces its first commercial development focus group addressing Cell Therapies for Peripheral Vascular ...
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - - Orange and TP to be an Official Technology Partner of UEFA EURO 2012(TM) - UEFA and Orange to Develop and Distribute the Official UEFA Mobile Application for UEFA EURO 2012(TM) - Orange Underlines its Commitment to Sport by Partnering With UEFA to Sponsor ...
Agence de Medecine Preventive (AMP)
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - The inaugural meeting of Mozambique's Committee of Experts on Immunization (Comité de Peritos para a Imunização, CoPI) was held in Maputo on January 7, 2011. The CoPI is the second National Immunization Technical Advisory Group (NITAG) in a sub-Saharan African country eligible for ...
Astellas Pharma Europe Limited
Tokyo (ots/PRNewswire) - Astellas Pharma Inc. announced today that its European subsidiary Astellas Pharma Europe Ltd.("Astellas Pharma Europe", headquarters: Stains, U.K.)" acquired the license for commercialization of the treatment for advanced prostate cancer Eligard(R) from TOLMAR Inc. ("TOLMAR", headquarters: Colorado, U.S.A.) on December 22, 2010 in a selection of Asian, Middle Eastern, North African and ...
Vancouver (ots/PRNewswire) - ICS Copper Systems Ltd. (the "Company) announces that it held its 2010 Annual General and Special Meeting of Shareholders (the "Meeting") on Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at which Meeting the following individuals were re-elected directors of the Company: Graham Chisholm, Markus Janser, David A. Fynn, Lawrence G. Treadgold. Shareholders ...
Hatfield, England (ots/PRNewswire) - Eisai Europe Limited, a subsidiary of Eisai Co., Ltd announces the establishment of its sales and marketing operation in its wholly owned subsidiary in the Netherlands based in Amsterdam. The first Eisai product on the Dutch market is the epilepsy treatment Zonegran (zonisamide). Commenting on the opening of the new subsidiary, Eisai Netherlands Managing Director, Mr Gert-Jan ...
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - Moët & Chandon today announced a new international advertising campaign featuring Scarlett Johansson, celebrity ambassador for the brand since March 2009. Developed by Paris-based Works Advertisement Agency and shot by renowned British photographer Tim Walker in Fall 2010, the ...
Camarillo California (ots/PRNewswire) - BNK Petroleum Inc. (the "Company") at the request of IIROC on behalf of the Toronto Stock Exchange, announces that it is not aware of any undisclosed material information that may be affecting the trading price and volume of the Company's common shares. The Company is currently drilling its Wytowno #1 well, on its Slawno concession in Poland, on acreage adjacent to where two ...
Montreal (ots/PRNewswire) - Sipro Lab Telecom and the licensors of the W-CDMA Patent Pool announced today that as of January 1, 2011, Sipro is the new licensing administrator of the W-CDMA Patent Pool. With the help of Sipro Lab Telecom, the licensors of the W-CDMA Patent Pool want to further increase the attractiveness of the W-CDMA Patent Pool's offering to ...
Tokyo and Woburn, Massachusetts (ots/PRNewswire) - Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited (TSE 4568) and ArQule, Inc. today announced that the first patient has been enrolled in the phase III trial of ARQ 197, an investigational selective inhibitor of the c-Met receptor tyrosine kinase, in combination with erlotinib, ...
Agence de Medecine Preventive (AMP)
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - The inaugural meeting of the Mongolian National Immunization Technical Advisory Group (NITAG) was held at the Ministry of Health in Ulaanbaatar on December 6, 2010. The NITAG is the first of its kind in Mongolia and was established based on recommendations from the World ...
Irvine, California, and Amsterdam (ots/PRNewswire) - Agendia, a world leader in molecular cancer diagnostics, announced today that together with several groups of scientific collaborators it has identified a major role for TSPYL5, one of its MammaPrint breast cancer prognosis genes, in the genesis of breast cancer. The study entitled: "TSPYL5 suppresses p53 levels ...
Travelex Global Business Payments
London (ots/PRNewswire) - GEO, Travelex's next generation payments solution, has been crowned "Innovation of the Year" by Financial-i, it was announced today. Launched at SIBOS 2010, GEO confirmed Travelex's position as the clear industry leader in global business payments and beat the major global banks and top-tier software providers to receive ...
Munich (ots/PRNewswire) - Daiichi Sankyo Europe announced today that Sevikar HCT(R) is now approved in Germany, the first market to launch this new once-daily three-in-one combination product for the treatment of high blood pressure (BP). This new drug combines the three widely prescribed blood pressure ...
Dartmouth, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago completed a review of previously published research on antidepressant benefits of Omega-3 essential fatty acids eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). The review comprised a meta-analysis of 15 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies in ...
Irvine, California and Amsterdam (ots/PRNewswire) - Agendia, a world leader in molecular cancer diagnostics, announced today that together with principal investigators from Spain, the UK, and the Netherlands, it has published the first independent validation study of its colon cancer recurrence test "ColoPrint" ...
Dartmouth, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - Ocean Nutrition Canada Limited (ONC), the world's largest Omega-3 EPA/DHA solutions provider, and supplier of MEG-3(R) brand Omega-3 EPA/DHA (eicosapentaenoic acid/docosahexaenoic acid) ingredients, is pleased to announce that it has entered into an exclusive long term ...
ABBOTSFORD, Canadá, December 13, 2010 (ots/PRNewswire) - ICS Copper Systems Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has closed the non-brokered private placement announced on November 24th, 2010 by the issuance of 3,125,000 units at a price of $0.08 per unit for gross proceeds of CAD $250,000. Each unit consists of ...
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - Institut Mérieux strengthens its commitment to medicine and global public health via an ambitious innovation policy, the structuring of a food safety/nutrition hub and the creation of a company dedicated to diagnostics in developing countries. One year after reinstating the historic name of Institut Mérieux for the family holding ...
Monheim, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - In a study published online last week in Medical and Veterinary Entomology, international experts reported the latest data on flea susceptibility to imidacloprid, revealing that after more than a decade of widespread use around the world, there is no evidence of resistance to this invaluable treatment. The study looked at data ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - Diskeeper Corporation releases the first in a series of corporate videos addressing problems caused by fragmented computers. This comical video portrays a key problem plaguing all Windows based computer systems today. Aimed at the corporate market, the video gives a dramatic but somewhat improbable solution to slow computers - one that all ...
Bristol-Myers Squibb GmbH & Co. KGaA
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - Bristol-Myers Squibb today announced that SPRYCEL(R) (dasatinib) 100mg once daily received Marketing Authorization from the European Commission for the treatment of adult patients with newly diagnosed Philadelphia chromosome positive (Ph+) Chronic Myelogenous Leukaemia in Chronic Phase ...
Tokyo (ots/PRNewswire) - Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited announced that its investigational once-daily oral, direct factor Xa inhibitor, edoxaban, was shown to be superior to enoxaparin sodium in preventing venous thromboembolic (VTE) events in patients following total hip replacement (THR), a type of major ...